The Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Omaha, NE and in Washington DC with a mission “to provide Cyber Warfare awareness, guidance, and security solutions through collaboration, education, volunteer work, and training to assist the US Government, US Military, Commercial Interests, and International Partners.” CSFI was born out of the collaboration of dozens of experts, and today CSFI is comprised of a large community of nearly 81,000 Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare professionals from the government, military, private sector, and academia. Our amazing members are the core of all of our activities, and it is for them that we are pushing forward our mission.
CSFI was founded on March 6, 2009 by Mr. Paul de Souza, a Chief Security Engineer for AT&T looking to find answers about the shift in hacking to more political and militaristic activity. Mr. de Souza was on the front lines of what history may call the first preludes to cyber warfare, and he continues to rally the community around Cyber issues.
CSFI is founded on 3 main pillars supporting our mission: Collaboration, Knowledge-Sharing, and Training/Education. Our collaboration efforts have helped to break down stovepipes and “closed networks” that exists inside government and industry to enable greater information sharing and increased capabilities. We practice what we preach and have developed a capability to collaborate on special projects to breakdown, decompose, and develop threats and topics to create white papers, analytical products on unique and sophisticated cyber attacks, and not only show problems, but solutions. Such collaboration has created countermeasures that promote a stronger cyber national security posture, most recently with advanced countermeasures for the Stuxnet attack and a Layer 7 DOS attack threatening millions of computers systems.
Complimentary to our collaboration efforts, CSFI is engaged in creating Cyber Warfare training materials to promote a stronger background for our men and women in uniform and also throughout the DOD community. CSFI is in a unique position to attract some of the foremost Cyber Warfare Strategists, Hackers, and Intelligence Professionals to develop high caliber training on a topic that has yet to be fully defined let alone explored and explained.
The Center for Nonprofit Information Technology Security was created to assist small and medium sized nonprofit organizations a platform to provide cost and resource savings to their organizations by offering Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) and Equipment-As-A-Service (EaaS).
These offered services would permit each company to host company Domains, domain management of company users, email accounts, website hosting, SQL databases and sharepoint services in a secure operating system environment.
The CNPITS within its organization offers Microsoft certified administrators to facilitate the needs of small and medium sized Nonprofits that do not have the funding or physical office space to the maintain technology hardware and maintain a staff of system and network administrators. In technical terms the CNPITS offers secure cloud hosting solutions for US based nonprofit organizations.
The CNPITS also is tasked to educate nonprofit staff into understanding the pitfalls of today’s society when it comes to Information Technology security and cyber security issues. Many nonprofits today while focused on their own mission goals generally do not have the personnel, knowledge, or staff to understand the current security issues facing the world in an ever increasing technology field.
The Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Omaha, NE and in Washington DC with a mission “to provide Cyber Warfare awareness, guidance, and security solutions through collaboration, education, volunteer work, and training to assist the US Government, US Military, Commercial Interests, and International Partners.” CSFI was born out of the collaboration of dozens of experts, and today CSFI is comprised of a large community of nearly 81,000 Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare professionals from the government, military, private sector, and academia. Our amazing members are the core of all of our activities, and it is for them that we are pushing forward our mission.
The skills and knowledge needed by organizations to properly secure intellectual property or PII information produced by their staff can become very daunting when the salary rates of personnel needed to perform these specific IT tasks are out of the reach of most small and medium sized nonprofit organizations. The CNPITS alleviates those issues by maintaining a central staff of personnel with these specific backgrounds dedicated to helping out local, state and national charitable communities. We are the charity that helps out charities and educational groups maintain a high level of technical ability to facilitate public outreach initiatives in all capacities.
The skills and knowledge needed by organizations to properly secure intellectual property or PII information produced by their staff can become very daunting when the salary rates of personnel needed to perform these specific IT tasks are out of the reach of most small and medium sized nonprofit organizations. The CNPITS alleviates those issues by maintaining a central staff of personnel with these specific backgrounds dedicated to helping out local, state and national charitable communities. We are the charity that helps out charities and educational groups maintain a high level of technical ability to facilitate public outreach initiatives in all capacities.
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